Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 9hHere's a fun question: If you had to estimate how many manuscript pages you've written to this point in your career -- be it for a journal article or chapter and published or published -- how many pages would that be? 011
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 16hturns out that making an extremely detailed outline helps with motivation (especially when writing something as open-ended as a chapter) 000
Reposted by Deon T. BentonLauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’ll be presenting next week @btscon.bsky.social on integrating undergraduate students into big team science projects in an advanced course. Come check out my presentation on Tuesday 10/6 at 2pm Eastern! 083
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anyone else like this? To get myself in the mood to write something, I like to read similar things. For example, I'm currently working on a chapter, and I'm struggling to find the motivation to write it. One thing that helps me find it is to read chapters written by my favorite scientists. 050
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jenna (jennadistefano.bsky.social), our editor extraodinaire, is really killing it with her interviews! Take a listen to the second episode of her segment, "A conversation with a future luminary." 010
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026little over one month to knock out this invited chapter. ready. set. go!! 010
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yeah -- this, and the other MB findings, have really got me thinking... 020
Reposted by Deon T. BentonLauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Want a little distraction that can help me with a class demo in Intro Psych? Take a short (1-2 minute) color perception test at ismy.blue Then report your results in the google form below! I'll post a figure of results by gender and age later this week. 🙂 forms.gle/dPkMztpNLNQK...ismy.blueIs my blue your blue?Test your color perception with this interactive test. 1185
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm a little reticent to say this for fear of it backfiring but I think, for the first time ever, I'm all caught up on my reviewer assignments. 030
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is absolutely positively not a flex but please tell me I'm not the only prof who doesn't practice talks beforehand (mostly because too busy and don't begin building prezi until way too close to the talk)? A downside? Almost always I have too much content 230
Reposted by Deon T. BentonMichelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The visual system tunes itself to the statistics of its input. How do individual experiences differently tune vision? In this work, @bjbalas.bsky.social and I examined how one individual difference—height—changes the visual diet and how this affects perception. 1/ 29430
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Crisis of the most epic proportions has been averted thanks to Katie (@ktvasq.bsky.social)! 020
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Anyone have access to the following reference? I've struck out. Hunter, M. A., & Ames, E. W. (1988). A multifactor model of infant preferences for novel and familiar stimuli. Advances in Infancy Research, 5, 69–95. 203
Reposted by Deon T. BentonJamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 20/09/2026My Op Ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the harms of cutting student supports and the tenuous state of financing American higher education www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...inquirer.comHow Temple University failed my daughter on her first day of college | OpinionMy daughter was collateral damage in an ongoing war for ever-higher enrollment numbers and was let down by an on-campus support system that has been weakened by extreme budget cuts. 0199
Reposted by Deon T. BentonLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Phew, not a lawyer but glad my understandings are accurate. #1stAmmendment 2111
Reposted by Deon T. BentonAndy Pinedo @profandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Social sciences colleagues working on more critical topics (e.g., inequality, racism, collective action), how are we thinking about advising our PhD students around the NSF GRFP this cycle? Is it work the effort, any sense whether they will receive fair consideration? A lost cause at the moment? 1116
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I said it before, and I'll say it again: this has got to Stapel. 150
Reposted by Deon T. BentonMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...aiguide.substack.comMisleading Metaphors, Real RisksWhat To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency 1019880
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So lovely to chat with my former postdoc mentor and to learn some new things about him! ;-) 021
Reposted by Deon T. BentonJenny Wang 👶 🧮 @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026seeking help 🆘 a senior colleague advised that i need to give more invited talks to strengthen my tenure case... how do i find such opportunities?static.klipy.comWirt from Over The Garden Wall Looks AwkwardALT: Wirt from Over The Garden Wall Looks Awkward 396
Reposted by Deon T. BentonBrandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026New paper with Liz Spelke, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that when 4- to 6-month-old infants observe two individuals share saliva, they infer that those individuals have a close relationship. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1niQg_Oow0... 16622
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Lovely, lovely paper, and even lovelier authors. Great work, Ashley (ashleyjthomas.bsky.social) and Brandon (brandonwoo.bsky.social). Even though I can’t say I’m convinced just yet, this is exactly the kind of challenge to our work that makes science fun. Stay tuned for a potential response. ;-)ashleyjthomas.bsky.socialAshley Thomas (@ashleyjthomas.bsky.social)This profile requires authentication to view. 040
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I do wonder when all of this data fraud will come to a Stapel. 020
Reposted by Deon T. BentonClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 03/09/2026Do you know the story of the infinitesimally small pirate? He walked the Planck 3395
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Spoken like a true procrastinator "The documentary record I have at my disposal today about those experiments isn’t sufficient to answer the questions that have been raised, and more than two decades, and hundreds of experiments later, my memory is similarly insufficient." 010
Reposted by Deon T. BentonLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yet again, very clear evidence of data fraud by Ariely. Waiting for the hundreds of articles and full court media press about how a top university is promoting the work of a fabulist. Cause that's what happens next right?? No differences in how some faculty are treated vs others??? 1216
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I'm looking to write a registered report for the first time ever -- yes, really! -- and I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to share an example. 7135
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I couldn't be prouder of our editor-in-chief Jenna DiStefano (jennadistefano.bsky.social) for developing and leading this new series! Please give it a listen!jennadistefano.bsky.socialJenna DiStefano (@jennadistefano.bsky.social)Dev Psych PhD candidate @ucdavis | studying the impact of spoken and sign language experience on cog dev 🧠🤟🏼 | formerly @upenn @vanderbilt 020
Reposted by Deon T. BentonMeltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I am truly honored to be one of the recipients of the SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology! 🎊 7472
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"As academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Cofnas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities." Talk about burying the fucking lede 041
Reposted by Deon T. BentonTim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you’re really concerned about online mobs “cancelling” academics, then you wouldn’t sign this. If you’re really concerned about the free and fair discussion of ideas, then you wouldn’t sign this. If you’re really just about flirting with “race realism” however… 051
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Congrats Rachel and my dear colleague Eric ericdwilkey.bsky.social 020
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You have the world's simplest bar graph, one corresponding to the experimental condition, the other, to the control condition.* Should (A) the experimental bar be positioned to the left of the control bar; or (B) to its right? *there is a correct answer here 211
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026📖 What I'm reading this week McMurray, B. (2007). Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science, 317(5838), 631-631. Re-read this absolute classic by Bob McMurray showing that there's nothing special about the vocabulary spurt if by "special" you mean a mechanism specific to the spurt. 110
Reposted by Deon T. BentonClare Conry-Murray, Ph.D. @cconrymurray.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Does anyone have suggestions for R packages or other resources for coding gender when it is an open-ended question? 244
Reposted by Deon T. BentonHilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Job ad - please share! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comLab CoordinatorThe Cognitive Development Lab and the Reasoning and Decision Making Lab at Wesleyan University (Dr. Hilary Barth and Dr. Andrea Patalano) announce a full-time joint Lab Coordinator position. The Lab C... 21013
Reposted by Deon T. BentonJenna DiStefano @jennadistefano.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I’m so honored to have been awarded the Duolingo Dissertation Research Grant! 🦉💚 My dissertation explores how language learning mechanisms (statistical learning) unfold across multiple populations of infants, children, and adults, including how attention and prior language experience shape learning. 081
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Being the ever-curious person that I am, I wonder if anyone would be willing to point me to *contemporary* arguments against a language network 320
Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026as if I didn't already have all of these cool papers to read, Jenny and her colleagues go and publish yet more cool papers I have to read 030
Reposted by Deon T. Bentonaaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026New lab paper! @noraharhen.bsky.social and @catehartley.bsky.social investigate how children and adolescents differ in their use of episodic context for decision-making. Thread below. 0337
Reposted by Deon T. BentonRebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I've seen lots of chatter about how this paper finds that liberal profs don't push their students leftward, but not enough chatter IMO about how students do shift leftward in college regardless. Knowledge, not faculty pressure, moves people leftward! Shameless plug for my related recent paper 🤗⤵️ 0122